Why Israel? Why synagogues? Why Jewish life celebrations such as baby namings, B'nai Mitzvah, weddings? In "Fiddler on the Roof," Tevye famously said: "Tradition!" To [...]

What makes you Jewish? My friend, Rabbi Adam Naftalin-Kelman (Hillel Director at the University of California, Berkeley) said that the Jews are [...]

What makes you Jewish? The painful reality of antisemitism is that it often pushes Jews inward. That is, when we feel threatened, [...]

As I recently walked with my friend, Rabbi Adam Naftalin-Kelman—the Hillel Director at the University of California, Berkeley—we processed the challenges of [...]